When John Hibbs' daughter Xanthe received her first bank card in the mail, the six-year-old spent the next week Googling how to buy a horse.

The economy can count on the American consumer. That was true in the pandemic years and the high-inflation era that followed, just as it is in the first months of the new tariff regime. But the ...

High tariffs, lingering inflation and more trouble finding a job apparently haven’t thrown consumers into a funk. Americans increased spending again in August to help keep the U.S. economy chugging.

For the first time since the dawn of the Great Recession, American consumers are tapping the brakes on a key category of spending. According to the July 2025 Bank of America Consumer Checkpoint report ...

President Trump may want a Defense Department rebrand -- but rather than changing its name to "Department of War," he should force the Pentagon to stop being a department of waste, John Hart writes.

MADISON - Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will pause scheduling abortion appointments starting Oct. 1 as it determines how to move forward under President Donald Trump's recently enacted tax and ...

Texas Tech is among the highest NIL spenders in all of college football after an expensive offseason. On3's Pete Nakos reported that Texas Tech spent $28 million in NIL money in 2025, second only to ...

(NewsNation) — The U.S. economy is running more and more on luxury fuel — the spending power of the wealthy. Consumers in the top 10% of the income distribution were behind 49.2% of total spending in ...

Consumers plan to cut holiday spending this year, putting extra pressure on retailers for their critical shopping season. Shoppers will shrink their holiday budgets by an average of 5%, the first ...

A new study found that there is no link between increased educational spending and student performance on standardized tests. Christopher Sadowski If you think spending more money on America’s schools ...

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The industry’s 12 biggest media and entertainment companies set another new content-spending record in 2024, paying out around $210 billion, up 4% on the year, according to an analysis by KPMG. From ...